Norris Electrical installs, tests, and replaces safety switches for homes and businesses across Sunbury and surrounding areas. Protect your family from electrocution with properly installed RCDs.
Safety switches, also known as Residual Current Devices or RCDs, are one of the most important safety features in your home’s electrical system. They detect the tiniest leakage of electrical current to earth, which is exactly what happens when a person is being electrocuted, and trip in as little as 30 milliseconds. That response time can be the difference between a minor shock and a fatality.
If your home does not have safety switches on every required circuit, that is a serious safety issue that needs to be fixed. Norris Electrical installs, tests, and replaces safety switches for homes and businesses across Sunbury and surrounding areas.
Many homeowners think circuit breakers and safety switches do the same thing. They do not, and understanding the difference could save a life:
Having circuit breakers in your switchboard does not mean you are protected. You need safety switches too. Norris Electrical ensures your switchboard has both, correctly installed on all required circuits.
Yes. Victorian regulations require safety switches on all power and lighting circuits in new homes and any circuits that are added or modified. Many older homes still lack adequate coverage, which puts the people living in them at genuine risk.
If you are not sure whether your home has adequate coverage, an electrical safety check will give you a clear answer.
Switchboard assessment
We inspect your switchboard to identify which circuits currently have safety switch coverage and which circuits require safety switches to be added.
Recommendation and quote
We explain what is needed in plain language and provide a clear, upfront quote covering all safety switches to be installed.
Installation
Safety switches are installed in the switchboard on all required circuits by our licensed electrician, with the power safely isolated before and during the work.
Testing and certification
Every newly installed safety switch is tested to confirm it trips and resets correctly. A Certificate of Electrical Safety is provided for the completed work.
Safety switches should be tested every 3 months to confirm they are working. Here is how to do it:
If the safety switch does not trip when you press the test button, it has failed and needs to be replaced. A safety switch that does not trip provides no protection whatsoever. Call Norris Electrical immediately if this happens. We can also carry out professional testing to AS/NZS 3000 standards if you need documented compliance records.
Norris Electrical installs and services safety switches for homes and businesses across Sunbury, Gisborne, Keilor, Hillside, Sydenham, Caroline Springs, Riddells Creek, Taylors Lakes, Essendon, Diggers Rest, Fraser Rise and Melton. It is one of the most affordable electrical upgrades you can make and one of the most important for your family’s safety.
Related services: switchboard upgrades, electrical safety checks, and house rewiring.
Do not leave your family’s safety to chance. Norris Electrical will check your switchboard, confirm which circuits are covered, and install safety switches where they are missing. Contact us for a fast, affordable quote.
